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Re: Some observations on developing with gcj
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:00:15 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Some observations on developing with gcj
On 29 Jun 2003, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> The last few weeks I have been working on a little project to learn
> more about the BitTorrent protocol and how usable gcj is for creating
> end user programs. See The Hunting of the Snark Project at
> <http://www.klomp.org/snark/>
Nifty. I'll have to try it out.
> When closing the program down I wanted to use shutdown hooks. But they
> only really work when the program terminates cleanly.
BTW this is on my list; I need it for Jetty.
> Since only Debian (unstable) currently distributes the gcj 3.3 version
> I also provide a static linked version of the program. This does work
> mostly but not always.
Does it still fail if you link with a static libgcj.a and libc DSO? I've
been using that as a workaround until libgcj has a stable ABI.
> Something that I learned from working on this project is that it is
> really nice to have a irc channel to directly discuss some issues with
> interested people. We should really consider setting up a gnu-java
> channel on freenode. Are people interested in this?
Sure. I've started watching the gcc channel on OFTC, which is pretty
light on traffic. I'm very new to IRC but it seems useful so far.
Jeff